Index: trunk/doc/design/06_hierarchy.html
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--- trunk/doc/design/06_hierarchy.html (revision 10197)
+++ trunk/doc/design/06_hierarchy.html (revision 10198)
@@ -244,5 +244,10 @@
by the exporter plugin. In this case either the exporter plugin or an
intermediate plugin is used to attach human readable unique names deduced
from the hierarchy (e.g. "refdes/refdes/refdes
"). Just like with the netnames,
-this name translation is optional.
+this name translation is optional. The same name prefixes
+can be used
+(global, sheet-local, auto, subtree-local, subtree-auto)
+on symbol names to control how they are merged into components.
+
+